Whereas 60% of the labour force in Lima are waged workers, only 27% are in Apurímac, notes Efraín González, an economist at Lima's Catholic University.These unwaged people are often more or less cut off from the market economy.
At the summit - which also included debt charities and consumer organisations - Ministers were told of far-reaching proposals that could ban daytime adverts on television that target the unwaged and vulnerable people.
Another group here is considering opening a worker-run, collectively managed brew pub for "people who resist patriarchy and oppression on all levels, unrepresented and unwaged workers," and "people who face and are against police brutality," said Stephanie Phillips, one of the organizers, in an e-mail.
It was not simply a demand at all, but "a political perspective, a class perspective that began with the unwaged rather than the waged.
Nick Clegg has a curious blind spot when it comes to the unwaged poor.
Mothers and children, though unwaged, were, after all, most of the population.
Structural adjustment policies, that is, the privatisation and cuts which devastated the developing world in the 80s and 90s, were based on women taking on even more unwaged work or going without – even when it meant starvation.
Working people on modest to low incomes and the unwaged may no longer be able to afford to live in the city, but their children can at least get to experience for a few hours the aristocratic lifestyle of strolling about and looking at expensive stuff.
Unlike the middle-class suffragette movement, the will to radicalise domesticity has come from the margins: this may be one reason why women have the vote while their domestic work remains unwaged or unrecognised.
